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To go into the M203 GL or in this case MK19, what the fuck else would you do with them?

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Let's put GPS devices on all of our military weapons and ammo so that our enemy can track where everyone is - said no General ever

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Man someone has a sweet stash somewhere

Lucky bastards

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I know the ATF put tracking devices in the grips of AKs and the the Soec Ops guys sometimes have weapons tracked.  Wonder if the 240 can be tracked or the 40 cal anmo can has a gps sticker on it.

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Grips of AKs? I'm sure the five minutes of battery life will provide fruitful results.

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Why can't I ever find cool shit like that?

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I recall getting back from a week in the field one night.  It was late, around 2100.  Everyone wanted to get out, married guys had wives waiting in the parking lot for them.  Single guys all had hot dates set up at The Driftwood, etc...

Everyone stood in formation while we dumped gear and searched for a fucking compass one of the lieutenants lost.  We finally were released at around 2300 - No idea if they actually found that thing.

Many jokes were being made about the general proficiency of officers and land navigation, along with wondering if the same procedure would be used if a corporal had lost a compass.

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Sitting on a C-141 one night on HCLA during Desert Shield. Weapons in the cargo bay so us nasty maintainers couldn't be left alone. 4 of us on the flight deck, SP with came up the ladder and was talking real nice, unlike most of Magoo SP's. After a few hours NiceGuy's lunch relief showed up, he jumpeddown and drove off to the chow hall. His relief was typical, stayed in the cargo box at the bottom of the ladder, faced away from us.

Couple of us tried talking to him, got smartass remarks or silence. One of our group says "Hey man, you better take care of this", and hand down NiceGuys M16 that he left lay on the crewbunk. Typical Cop rips it out of his hands, jumps down outside, and soon the SP Supervisor shows up and takes the weapon. Guy that gave it to him thought it was so funny, until somebody else reminded him that all he did was get NiceGuy in deep shit.

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Now they get to inventory the entire base.  What fun.

I wonder what else will be discovered as missing.

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They ought to send in the military to help the AF find that shit.

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It happened. Am I missing something? Why does no one believe this is possible?
"Some of the guns from Wide Receiver were implanted with RFID chips and were actively tracked electronically. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in Phoenix also implemented aerial surveillance tactics in an attempt to follow the weapons.

However, problems reportedly arose due to poorly implanted RFID chips which were forced into the guns, bending the antennas and decreasing their effectiveness. Cartels and straw purchasers also eventually came up with creative ways to shake tracking maneuvers and overhead surveillance, such as driving in loops for hours until surveillance planes had to refuel".

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They ought to send in the military to help the AF find that shit.

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To go into the M203 GL or in this case MK19, what the fuck else would you do with them?

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Oh for fuck's sake!

I used to work in the armory when it was in Bldg. 848 many years ago, and I'm still trying to figure out how they lost a M240.  At every shift change, the armorer's do a weapons and ammo count.  If the numbers don't add up, then two of you go back and do it again.  If a weapon was out, there was either the person's weapons card or a filled out paper form in the rack slot.  Every shift change you walked the racks and made sure that there was a card or paper in every slot while doing the counts.  Flightline 203's and 60's were kept in separate racks from the missile field 203's and 60's.  They were then issued out in series so at changeover if one hadn't been returned, that empty slot stuck out like a sore thumb.  From the duty rosters that were given to the armory, you knew how many people were pulling duty on any given day.  Doing the count is tedious, but it's not fucking rocket science.

Ever since SAC went away, it seems like the base has had their fair share of fuck ups.  Live cruise missiles to Barksdale, MCC's cheating on their proficiency tests, the 40mm can bouncing down the road, and now this.  I would pay good money to see my armory NCOIC, Msgt. Regala, go on a tear and rip these people a new asshole.  It would be both  glorious and absolutely downright frightening at the same time.

When I was the M203 man out in the missile field, the grenade can was my foot stool in the Peacekeeper, so I always knew where it was.  If they had done a better job of packing their gear, the 40mm can never would have made it out of the Humvee.  Hard (and probably expensive) lesson learned.

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On an unrelated subject, who has the best price on some belted 7.62?